Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1810 |
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... Heaven , and pleading for the Guilty , with Justice described by her Qualities . Mercy brightening the Rainbow The Palace of Presumption . PHINEAS FLETCHER . Happiness of the Shepherd's Life THOMAS LODGE . Rosader's Sonetto Rosalind's ...
... Heaven , and pleading for the Guilty , with Justice described by her Qualities . Mercy brightening the Rainbow The Palace of Presumption . PHINEAS FLETCHER . Happiness of the Shepherd's Life THOMAS LODGE . Rosader's Sonetto Rosalind's ...
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... heaven's light did hide , Not pierceable with power of any star : And all within were paths and alleys wide , With footing worn , and leading inward far : Fair harbour , that them seems ; so in they entered are . And forth they pass ...
... heaven's light did hide , Not pierceable with power of any star : And all within were paths and alleys wide , With footing worn , and leading inward far : Fair harbour , that them seems ; so in they entered are . And forth they pass ...
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... Heaven's wide hollowness , That moves more dear compassion of mind , Than beauty brought t'unworthy wretchedness , Through envy's snares , or fortune's freaks unkind . I , whether lately through her brightness blind , Or through ...
... Heaven's wide hollowness , That moves more dear compassion of mind , Than beauty brought t'unworthy wretchedness , Through envy's snares , or fortune's freaks unkind . I , whether lately through her brightness blind , Or through ...
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... heaven , shined bright , And made a sunshine in a shady place ; Did ever mortal eye behold such heavenly grace . It fortuned , out of the thickest wood , A ramping lion rushed suddenly , Hunting full greedy after savage blood ; Soon as ...
... heaven , shined bright , And made a sunshine in a shady place ; Did ever mortal eye behold such heavenly grace . It fortuned , out of the thickest wood , A ramping lion rushed suddenly , Hunting full greedy after savage blood ; Soon as ...
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... heavens , always jovial , Look'd on them lovely , still in stedfast state . Ne suffer'd storm nor frost on them to fall , Their tender buds or leaves to violate ; Nor scorching heat , nor cold intemperate , T'afflict the creatures which ...
... heavens , always jovial , Look'd on them lovely , still in stedfast state . Ne suffer'd storm nor frost on them to fall , Their tender buds or leaves to violate ; Nor scorching heat , nor cold intemperate , T'afflict the creatures which ...
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